The dotcom mania has, to a certain degree benefited the entire IT industry as billions of dollars has been injected in improving Internet infrastructure as well as its applications and services. As a result, there is a dramatic increase in Internet bandwidth and reliability but with drastic decline in the overall cost to be online.

Nowadays, corporate are more comfortable in establishing their presence in the Internet, be it a web site or messaging. As a matter of fact more companies are conducting their businesses over Internet, taking the form as B2C, B2B or both. The innovations pioneered during the Internet age have found its way into corporate's internal network taking the form as Intranet which serves as a portal to a myriad of services and applications, thus diminishing the need for multiple clients. In essence, it has evolved into a more realistic business investment.